<Fear> whatever the intention of this clan is, in my eyes its objectively an elaborate loophole past several limitations which tthe clan system purposefully imposes

<Fear> its not against any written rules no
<Fear> that doesnt make the concept ok, 
it doesnt mean it doesn't circumvent the limitation and growth 
aspects of the toriclan system, it doesn't mean real unofficial 
clans arent gonna be squashed, it doesn't mean this isn't 
essentially a creative way to put your clan's app thread in the 
unofficial board

Actually I think quite a few people can already see this rationale, however people seem particularly annoyed that this decision came down like a ton of bricks and should have happened before Parakeet was launched, which is true and has already been apologized for, but in case you didn't read that, sorry.

Consider the position here:

If we let parakeet live, and allow feeder clans, we now have to implement a whole new set of rules relating to them, how they will work, how many you can have, what they should look like, yadda yadda. I'm confident Parrot wouldn't use an idea like this with anything except good intentions, however intentions are fleeting and there's no way I can put this in my mind which brings any benefit to anybody except the owners of the feeder clan. Is Parakeet the worst thing that ever happened to clans? Hell no. Does that mean it's ok? Also no. Bad.

If we let parakeet live but ban feeder clans, now we have a clan with an unfair gain not only over unofficial clans, but also over the other official clans too. We've made an exemption to a rule for no reason. Bad.

If he kill parakeet and ban feeder clans, now we have consistency in the enforcement of the policy and avoid the quagmire of extra rules and measurable negative impacts these types of clan would have. Should this have been dealt with better? Yes, however in my mind no staff group should ignore rules or allow the continuation of something it strongly disagrees with just for the sake of its public appearance (maybe ES needs its appearance, w/e).

There was one more point raised: we made this decision quickly. Would you rather have had parakeet running for another week before this happened? I'm very surprised this is a complaint point.